Cases

Chris Tapp

"Judges for Justice" became involved in Christopher Tapp's case in 2012 when Judge Heavey contacted the victim's mother Carol Dodge. Three DNA tests have been performed in the case. The sperm DNA left at the 1996 murder scene does not match Tapp. In 2009 hairs left at the murder scene by the perpetrator did not...

Dana Ireland

In 1991, a visitor to Hawaii, Dana Ireland, was kidnapped, raped and murdered. The man who left his DNA, bite-mark and T-shirt at the crime has neither been arrested nor identified. He walks the land, free to kill again. The three local men convicted of Dana’s murder are innocent; they had nothing to do with...

Amanda Knox

Retired Superior Court Judge Mike Heavey became involved in Amanda Knox and Raffaele Sollecito’s case in 2008, shortly after they were arrested for the murder of Meredith Kercher. Amanda was a neighbor and friend of Heavey’s daughter. He found this case unsettling because his personal knowledge of Amanda differed so greatly from the portrayal on...